A health alert issued for Piedmont Road — between Summit Boulevard and Tronjo Road — has been lifted, the Escambia County Health Department reported today.

Piedmont Road, in Pensacola's Cordova Park neighborhood, was among the areas most badly damaged by the recent severe weather. Torrential rainfall turned the quiet, residential street into a raging river of mud and debris April 29 and April 30 — destroying most of the neighborhood's infrastructure in a matter of hours.

Public work crews have since been laboring feverishly to restore some sense of normalcy to the area's embattled residents. In a press release issued today, local health officials said the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority had completed temporary repairs to the street's broken sewer systems. As a result, the Health Department decided to lift the alert, which had been in effect since May 3.